Our Mutual Friend.

Setting.

Our Mutual Friend is set around the backdrop of the rubbish piles of Victorian society. When an heir to a fortune built on rubbish is found dead the money goes to an illiterate servant whose character takes on a sinister turn.

Publication.

Our Mutual Friend was serialised between May 1864 to November 1865 in twenty monthly parts, published as nineteen issues. The novel is divided into four books. It was originally illustrated by Marcus Stone.